ext4_add_entry(): ->d_name.len is never 0
authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Sun, 12 Nov 2023 21:25:46 +0000 (16:25 -0500)
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Thu, 21 Dec 2023 17:53:11 +0000 (12:53 -0500)
commit556f38bf457fee5d9f3ede65b67fd91dd2ea2ca1
treec4e046cc7d4d6935a0f0f94389a2bc6766b51a22
parentf6c8bfcf951feeab716bd051e4c1d767fe82df0f
ext4_add_entry(): ->d_name.len is never 0

That bogosity goes back to the initial merge of ext3.  Once upon a time
ext2 used to have a similar check; that got taken out during the switch
to page cache (June 2001).  ext3 got merged into mainline 5 months later,
still using buffer cache for directories; removal of the pointless check
in ext2 should've been done as a separate patch, but it hadn't been,
so that thing got missed...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
fs/ext4/namei.c